I use it mostly on small tools, Stanley Planes

Posted by casebro on Thursday, April 15, 2004 at 7:41PM :

In Reply to: This Interests Me... posted by Marty on Thursday, April 15, 2004 at 5:47PM :

Used full strength, the acid solution actually bubbles, then I 'pet' it (scubbing not required) to remove the loose rust, and resoak. The blackness will stain your fingers.

Re: parkerizeing, I got the recipe off the net. They used acid from a chemical supply house,said add zinc equal in weight to the Phosphoric acid, heat bath to 140 deg. Try a web search, or try a batch...I figured soaking hot dipped zinc hardware would get some zinc into solution. I won't try it on my Winchester first, though a model 25 riot gun would be an appropriate object.....

Or try Brownell's.com, they sell gun finishs and stuff like that.

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• Re: I use it mostly on small tools, Stanley Planes - Russ/Wyo 4:20PM 04/20/2004
• Yep, Brownells is the one - jack cain 11:14PM 04/15/2004
  • They also have the rest of - jack cain 11:18PM 04/15/2004
• Re: I use it mostly on small tools, Stanley Planes - Marty 8:05PM 04/15/2004
  • I've used it on parts for the Mog - Joe Lorenzino 8:22PM 04/15/2004

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